Mexico #12
12/16/13
Answering questions first:
I’m not sure on the skyping
situation. I’m pretty positive we
will skype because its almost free compared to calling. My next P Day is
Dec 23, so I will know before then and will be able to write you guys to
say times.
My Christmas packages haven’t
arrived yet. I think, I’m
going to the mission office tomorrow so I will find out then!
I hope I get them all.
Dear Family,
Ok well this week was fantastic!
We had a ton of work and some success!
Well the picture we had from the
baptism was Victoria. She is 71 years old, and super funny and super
crazy! I don’t know if I have said this yet, but now we have a 5
sacrament meeting attendance policy for every baptism. It has slowed down
the baptisms, but now we can at least retain some people! Victoria was
baptized Saturday. I
performed the ordinance, and like I said she is a little old. She didn’t get that she needed to
plug her nose, so that was a little frightening when she started choking. But other than that it was a
beautiful thing! One of the great fruits of this baptism was that
Victoria’s daughter Guadalupe, who isn’t a member starting crying, and she has since
been taking the lessons! I think we will be able to baptize her, her husband,
and their daughter! Wow! The Lord is so great!
Well another cool experience that
we had this week, was that we had 6 investigators in Sacrament Meeting! They
came out of nowhere because we had planned on about 3, but another 3 showed up!
Aurelio, the man I mentioned last week, that can’t walk, well he was
there...WALKING!!!!!!!!!!!
That was such an amazing thing, and
then our first convert, Jose, had his cousin there as well, as well as a man we
met about 2 months ago in the street when he was SUPER drunk. Wow this Ward
really helped us out, because for a minute or two we had our hands really full!
Wow I love this Ward! Aeropuerto! I really don’t want to be changed, because this next
cycle we will have two more elders in our ward, and I’m pretty sure we are going
to have a lot of success! So today it was great news when I learned were
not changing. Which is great
because I love my companion Elder Gomez and everyone in this area! Wow
such a great week!
Ok well something that i was
studying this week that was interesting;
In Alma 14 it talks about the
missionary efforts of Alma and Amulek. In this chapter, we see some
really terrible things. Alma and Amulek are imprisoned and really beaten.
The saints that they had converted are cast into a fire. This,
honestly is so awful. I’m sure they loved these people. They
watched this all happen. They are constrained to not act with the power
of God, because those souls are saved. They are then taken, bound, and
put again in prison. Their clothes are taken, and they are given no food
or water. After this, the lawyers, and the judges come, question them,
and beat them. This is were the miracle happens;
It says in the chapter that after
ALL of the lawers and judges had smitten them, up until the VERY LAST ONE,
that’s when Alma and Amulek receive power. I am 100 percent positive they
received strength during this trial.
But at this time, they rise up and destroy these terrible men. This
can be applied with us. After we have been smitten, hurt, and tried,
even until THE VERY LAST THING, we receive our strength to change our circumstances.
We must endure until the very end. That’ not today or tomorrow or
this week, but the end! We
will receive the strength to do it, and we WILL be able to do it. That is
a promise from the God of the whole earth: THAT WE CAN DO THIS!!!
I love this and I hope this helps
anyone, because one person is enough.
P.S. Please keep writing, I love hearing about you all!
Love
Elder England
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